A Chibble of ________: What's a Chibble?

[Randerolf]

Hey guys,

My grandmother uses the word chibble sometimes. She uses it as an adjective meaning a "small portion of."

I was searching through some dictionaries (real world and on-line [namely www.m-w.com]) and scoured the internet for information.

She's from the Carlolinas and lived mostly in the South except for a short time in Guam. Chibble, it sounds British.

You guys have any definiative answers on the true deffinition of chibble (if its even a word)?

Links
It popped up a few places.
Cornish?
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~marci...w/dialect.html

Chibble................. A kind of small onion

Caribian?
http://www.silvertorch.com/quizo/mon_quiz.htm

Q: What do bam-chick-lay and goat water stew have in common?

Thanks!

A: Both may be experienced in Montserrat, and both have Irish origins. Bam-chick-lay is a folk dance and goat water stew is a national dish. It's goat meat flavored with "herbs and chibble." What's chibble? Thyme and scallions.

[lordjeebus]

It's a pretty simple sounding word and my guess is that it evolved independently in different places where it means different things. Google only finds about a hundred pages so it probably doesn't have any sort of established definition anywhere.

[thingstodo]

i love facts and this one was a new, interesting fact.